Educating the “Healthy” Masses

By Ed Pecinka

Opportunities to bring knowledge and value to our marketplace
comes from many different places. In the
month of March, after attending the bi annual NAFEM “training ground”, Pecinka
Ferri has been fortunate to “educate” our industry, not only on a regular basis
in our Culinary Center or by sharing our sales staff and knowledge with our key
dealer partners as they presented “what’s new” and unique at the annual
International Restaurant and Foodservice Show of New York.

We were requested to participate in two unique programs that
have allowed our staff to “teach” new cooking techniques and product
applications.

Our Chef Nick Mercogliano, with his sous’ John Alfano and Amir Kamal, cooked and presented at the
AHF-NY event “Mindful Eating for the Beloved Community- Plant Based Culinary
Clinic”. This was followed up this week
with Chef Nick presenting “Farm to Table, Vegetables and Micro Greens” to
students at Queensborough Community College.
The school’s annual common read was Will Allen’s, The Good Food Revolution. Chef
Nick presented our GardenChef as a unique tool available today that
will allow restaurants and healthcare facilities a perfect environment for
growth of micro greens and vegetables. By bringing “tasting samples” along with
a freshly grown tray of wheatgrass, this presentation gave perfect closure with
real-life examples of the value of good foods.

The Unique Training Continues!!!!

Come join the team from Pecinka Ferri and meet James Zensen,
Engineering Support Manager for Wells Ventless Products, for an in depth and
hands on presentation/training on the features, benefits, and design
specifications for what is becoming the industries latest ventilation
technology offering.

Training sessions will be taking place on:

Tuesday April 16th / 11am- 2pm and Wednesday April 17th 11am – 2pm

Day and Nite/ All Service 10 Charles Street New Hyde Park, NY 11040

Lunch will be served

For more information or to RSVP call Terie Ozuski at PF 973 812-4277

Just in time for Ice Cream Season, Server Products announces that they are delaying their scheduled price increase until 2020!

Please join us in welcoming our newest team member Daria Runza to Pecinka Ferri.

Daria will be working with our customer service team and can be reached at (973) 813-7149 Daria@pecinkaferri.com

2019 AHF Election Results

The 2019 election results are in The members elected two new officers, three new directors, and two leadership development committee members to serve on the Association’s 2019-2020 Board of Directors and Leadership Development Committee.

New Jersey’s own Aatul Jain was voted in as Director at Large.

He is currently Executive Chef at Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick.

Robo-Cook had been working alongside his kitchen-gardener, the Germinator at the Paddy O’Furniture Virtual Pub for some time. Together they led the fight for clean food, growing flats of microgreens, and nitro-brewing coffee, tea and Italian sodas. Rumors on the (pedestrian only) street swirled that they’d been transported from a future air-polluted Gotham by Porcupine.com (delivered by time-travelling drones).

Porcupine had lost its bid to open a third second headquarters in San Francisco. Locals there – who were receiving universal basic income – spent their idle days protesting against any cafeteria equipment manufacturers who were not paying their robots at least $15/hour. The company decided to manufacture their burger-flipping androids and micro-green gro-cabinets at one of their other-second-headquarters instead.

Paddy O’s waitron, Rosie was out walking their cyborg pet Astro, when she was alerted to the familiar “Danger, Phil Robinson, Danger!” coming from their 120 square foot kitchen. It seemed that not only had the walk-in door been left ajar, but the salad robot was out of pumpkin seeds. Jumping onto her Segway, she sped back past Uber Eats driverless cars. Upon arrival she discovered that: big data had already been transmitted from the appliances to upper management’s mobile devices, that an alert was issued to the headsets in the kitchen, and that HACCP violations had been recorded online.

It’s showtime again – this time in the Big Apple and in Sin City. The IRFSNY opens Sunday 3/3/19 at the Javits Center, showcasing many of the items that were introduced at NAFEM, as well as comestibles.

The Pizza Show starts on Wednesday 3/6/19 in Vegas, with many of our factories exhibiting (and cooking live there) as well.

As we close in on the quarter’s end, there are deals to be made! Look for us at the shows for all of the specials available.

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